MISSOURI WALKING HORSE NEWS
Missouri horse activities seem to be booming . I enjoyed visiting with everyone at Dr . Baney ’ s sale and at Joe Webb ' s sale and show . These two outings seem to have stirred up the usual enthusiasm of getting ready for the first show .
George Blades , trainer for Blades-McCrosky Stables of Billings , Missouri , is working hard to ready his horses for the show ring . He has a nice black twoyear-old filly by ROGERS MERRY GO BOY out of a SUN ’ S GO BOY mare for Mr . and Mrs . Orville Ross of Mr . Vernon . This fine-made filly shows lots of promise . George also has another good prospect in IM- PALA ’ S SON , a bay two-year-old stud owned by Mr . and Mrs . M . A . Odell of Hutchinson , Kansas . This colt is by THE I MPA LA out of a GO BOY mare .
Mr . and Mrs . Ed Potts of Republic have two twoyear-olds in training here by their good stallion , MER RY DUST ' S SHADOW , which was shown under the name of NIGHT TRAIN . NIGHT TRAIN ’ S CABOOSE is a big loose-going sorrel colt .
MOONLIGHT GAiMBLER , a pretty gray three-yearold stud , is owned by Mr . and Mrs . George McCrosky of Republic . He is by MIDNIGHT SECRET and is a full brother to MY SECRET SUN . Mr . and Mrs . Bill Pickering have two outstanding stallions in training- KEETER ’ S PINUP and SUN DUST RHYTHM are popular winners in horse show circles .
George has two more good prospects in the twoyear-old bracket . EBONY ’ S BLACK SHADOW is a three-year-old black stud owned by Mr . and Mrs G . H . Holloway of Neosho . John Whitten of Carthage recently sent George a sorrel filly by SHEPHERD OF THE HILLS . He says this filly could just be the one1
I recently had a nice visit with the senior and junior Bill Maacks of the Maack Stables at Bolivar . They have a newly expanded barn full of good horses . Bill is working three two-year-olds that are excellent prospects as well as excellently bred individuals . SILVER MIST is a beautiful roan filly by SILVER SAM ; she is owned by Howard Northcutt of Buffalo , and has the looks and motion of a winner . Another roan fiih , GO BOYS TEAR DROP , is a showy , handsome full sister to CARESSES GO PRIDE , Irma Scott ’ s outstanding juvenile mare ( a blue roan five-year-old that was beaten only once last year ). TEAR DROP hv Irma ’ s father , John Scott . Ed Sanniv , . has ' an impressive stud colt by his stallion , HOGErS
merry GO BOY . The Maacks have an abundance of good three-VPa . oil horses . SAM ’ S CELEBRITY by SILVER SAmT a sharp-looking sorrel owned by Marilyn Maack . EB
ONY ’ S RAMBLER , a sensational black stallion that can really walk on is owned by Don Cook of SioUx Falls , S . D . This is the colt that won the big Sprin * field show last year as a two-year-old . LULU is ' bay mare that had an exceptional record as a twcv year-old : she won four blues last season for owner Max Atkinson of Olean . Another three-year-old fifiv owned by Jasper Trimble of Jefferson City will make her initial appearance this year . This black filly is just barely started , but is most promising . Ed Sappington has a black stallion by his ROGERS GO BOY stallion in this age bracket that is better than ever . He has a beautiful head . LEARS MUSTANG , owned by Lionel Lear , is a black three-year-old by MIDNIGHT SUN . After a winter ’ s work he really looks great , and wili be shown by his owner this season .
Barkley Brock has TOP GUN in training here . This black gelding is working to perfection . I also saw a nice yearling colt by Mr . Brock ’ s GUNSMOKE ’ S SUN . I believe this is his first colt and it looks as if he will be quite a breeding horse . SPARTACUS is a good three-year-old of Brock ’ s that I saw .
Southwest Missouri has suffered a great loss with the death of John Baker , a prominent horseman and breeder in our area . Mr . Baker , of Hollister , passed away as the result of successive strokes .
I was proud of the fact that our Missouri trainers were well-represented at the trainers ’ meeting in Shelbyville , Tennessee on March 15 and 16 . Among the trainers attending from Missouri were my husband , Sonny Scrivner of Rogersville , Paul Thompson of West Plains , Don Bolinger of California , Louis Sloan of Dixon , Georgie Blades of Billings , Floyd Posenke of Springfield , Bill Maack , Jr . of Bolivar , Ray Green and LeRoy Stoneking .
Chuck Graves of Strafford was visiting the other day and said that he has an exceptionally nice colt at Joe Webb ’ s barn in Searcy , Arkansas . This black stallion , GRAVES ’ PERFECTION , is by RODGERS PERFEC TION and is doing extremely well for a two-year-old . The Graves family also have another young horse that they have shown and have done very well with . He is D BOY , a four-year-old chestnut by DANNY GO BOY . There are a number of terrific colts by this stallion that were bred before the stallion went to Middle Tennessee to stand at Suits Me Farms . D BO ’ i has won a number of blues and they are expecting him to be improved even more this year .
Bonjour Construction Company , Inc . has a pair of really outstanding stallions out of the great old show mare , SUN ’ S LASSIE . This mare was shown by Chester Beshears for four years and was practically unbeatable . Her first colt , RED SHADOW by GO BOY ’ S SHADOW , sold for a considerable sum . SHADOW S HEIR B is a three-year-old black stallion out of LAb- SIE by MIDNIGHT AIRE . We saw this colt work and there are few horses that have all the show-horse qualities he has . He tied second last year at the M * s souri State Fair in a terrific class of colts and they
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26 Voice of the Tennessee Walking Horse